The commanders at Cowpens and Kings Mountain who liberated the South from British control.
> The commanders at Cowpens and Kings Mountain who liberated the South from British control.
My family had 2 brothers who were at the Battles of Cowpens and Kings Mountain. From accounts I have heard, Kings mountain was so brutal and so many British died there that it was a half dozen years before anyone could return to the site of the battle. Hungry wolves descended on the battlefield and stayed until all the corpses were gone. Then they hung around the area for several years after.
Daniel Morgan at Cowpens, Benjamin Cleveland at Kings Mountain, and Nathanial Greene for the over all southern strategy that forced Cornwallis back to Yorktown.
I had Carroll ancestors at the Battle of Williamson’s Plantation, the first of the series of militia victories in South Carolina that led up to the big victories at Kings Mountain and Cowpens. It was a small battle but an important one, the patriot militia saw that they could defeat British troops.